The country’s ongoing fascination with the Kennedys shows no signs of abating and this weekend, two more scions of the most famous of all Irish-American families are in Ireland for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

A flame taken from the eternal one on US president John F Kennedy’s grave has arrived in Ireland as part of events to mark 50 years since his visit.

The first person to introduce John Fitzgerald Kennedy in public as “the next President of the United States” was from Kanturk, Co Cork.

White House planners did not include Cork in the first draft itinerary they prepared for President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

SHE’S probably the most successful neophiliac ever.

ELIZABETH Warren won back for the Democrats the historic Kennedy seat in Massachusetts, and so there’s finally someone in the US Senate who understands family values.

Simon Cowell and Dannii’s fling was no casting couch moment. But there are plenty of examples of men who do abuse power, says Suzanne Harrington

George Harrison Living In The Material World

HE not only captured Marilyn Monroe at her most intimate, but is responsible for one of the most iconic screen images of all time — the famous shot of the blonde bombshell standing over a subway grill on the set of The Seven Year Itch, her white halter dress billowing in the rush of uprising air.

AMERICA is “rooting” for Ireland to overcome its economic problems and will do all it can to help out, President Barack Obama pledged yesterday.

US President Barack Obama has said the success of the peace process in the North should be a lesson for troubled parts of the world.

IT has been the subject of almost as many rumours as one of its key character’s demise, but film legends Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro may finally be set to start shooting gangster movie, The Irishman.

TRIBUTES from the literary world poured in yesterday for novelist Beryl Bainbridge, who has died at the age of 77.

When Jean came in to my office in Iveagh House she was taken aback and moved to see my photo of her brothers. On leaving Ireland after her term as ambassador she kindly gave me a gift of one of her own photos of the three brothers at home.

The most remarkable thing about Chappaquiddick is that Kennedy was 37 years old at the time. This was not some youthful shenanigans gone wrong. Everything about the story — the drinking, philandering, poor judgment and lies — were the man. It was entirely in character

TED KENNEDY was both the most loved and one of most hated and divisive politicians in the United States. Republicans frequently depicted him as the embodiment of evil and amorality, as well as a relic of the self-indulgent liberalism of the 1960s.

JACKIE KENNEDY had a steamy four-year affair with Bobby Kennedy after JFK’s assassination, according to a new book.

Up to 120,000 people marched through Dublin today in an emotional and angry national demonstration over the Government’s handling of the economic crisis.

The decision by the daughter of murdered US president John F Kennedy to abandon her bid for a US Senate seat sparked an ugly swirl of accusations today and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.

CAROLINE KENNEDY withdrew her senate bid because of a personal matter unrelated to her ill uncle, rejecting the governor’s attempt to get her to reconsider, a person who worked closely with her said yesterday.

Hillary Clinton apologised after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.

The Central Statistics Office report, Measuring Ireland’s Progress 2006, is an interesting snapshot of the country’s comparative position among the states of the European Union.

Ireland's most famous mature student, Martin Sheen, said today his college experience had been an extraordinary adventure.

UNDER international law, reprisal actions are supposed to be commensurate with the provocation.

THE situation in the Middle East continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate, while the international community stands idly by, seemingly believing that little can be done.

OVER the past weekend Americans were commemorating Memorial Day, remembering those who were killed in all the wars.

VETERAN BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke died yesterday at his home in New York. He was 95.

Bobby Kennedy’s assassin today lost a bid to overturn his conviction an and subsequent life sentence.

Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel was jailed for 20 years to life today for murdering the girl next door in 1975 when they were 15-year-old neighbours.

Joseph Luns, a former Dutch foreign minister and Nato chief who guided the Western alliance through a critical Cold War decade, died today. He was 90.

Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel was today convicted of a murder he committed 27 years ago when he was 15.